{"id":21452,"date":"2022-04-25T20:18:31","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T20:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/chelsea-names-mikel-obi-youngest-centurion"},"modified":"2022-04-25T20:23:17","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T20:23:17","slug":"chelsea-names-mikel-obi-youngest-centurion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/chelsea-names-mikel-obi-youngest-centurion","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea names Mikel Obi youngest centurion\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Zambia. <\/strong><\/span>Premier League club, Chelsea, has named former Super Eagles captain, Mikel Obi, the club\u2019s youngest player to reach 100 league appearances for the club. The London club confirmed this on its official website.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement was made during the club\u2019s celebration of Mason Mount, who made his 100th league appearance for the English club against Arsenal on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The England star was only 23 years and 100 days old when he achieved the milestone for the Blues, but that\u2019s still only enough to make him the fourth-youngest player to reach the landmark.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea on its website confirmed that former Nigeria midfielder Mikel became the club\u2019s youngest centurion when he was 22 years and 291 days when he started for the Blues in a 2-0 win over Arsenal on February 7, 2010.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe youngest player to reach a century of Premier League appearances for the Blues was still two months shy of his 23rd birthday when he brought up the milestone in a 2-0 win over Arsenal,\u201d the club wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was a familiar theme of the Nigerian midfielder\u2019s time at Chelsea, as we regularly got the better of the Gunners.\u201d Chelsea names Super Eagles legend, Mikel Obi youngest centurion<\/p>\n<p>Mikel joined Chelsea in the summer of 2006 and made 22 appearances in his debut season. In the 2007\/08 season, he made another 29 appearances with another 34 appearances in 2008\/09.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\">Zambia<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zambia. Premier League club, Chelsea, has named former Super Eagles captain, Mikel Obi, the club\u2019s youngest player to reach 100 league appearances for the club. The London club confirmed this on its official website. 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